Please note that as of the May
newsletter we would like to start sending out the MAA newsletters to all MAA members
that have email. This would save much time and money for the MAA. People who
are not on or do no have access to email will continue to receive their MAA
newsletters via regular post office mail.

If you wish to help out tremendously
the MAA and its officers please email Colleen McGowan, MAA President at MCGOWANCOL@AOL.COMyour email address. Please include your
name and club in the email so we have all the info for the new data base.Email address will not show on the email
sending the newsletter, it will be send via a blind copy so you email address
will not be and cannot be passed along to anyone else unless you want it to
be.We need you to do this ASAP
so we can start building the database file of info.
Just think, applications for shoots and newsletter with info needed will no
longer be lost or thrown out by accident. Thanks so much for you help in advance of you
participating in this new modern age of the MAA.

Membership Personal Information:

Please make sure that your
CLUB and the MAA has the CORRECT PERSONAL INFO. for
you. Recent pursuant of contact was deterred because of incorrect phone
numbers. If you move or change your phone numbers please make sure that both
you CLUB and the MAA has those changes. If not pertinent
info. Or other communications such as newsletters, and shoot
registration forms will not and cannot be delivered.

Membership – Important
Information for the New Year!!

For NAA members your membership application
is attached. Please forward it along with your payment made out to the Maryland
Archery Assc. to the P.O. Box address listed on the
application as well as the top of this newsletter.

Please note that there are NO MAA
ONLY members except for those who have paid MAA only LIFETIME DUES. Those who fall in that category will still need to pay
NFAA dues to participate in NFAA sanctioned shoots.

Those
people can forward there money to the above P.O. Box along with an application
stating this and the MAA will forward your NFAA dues on to NFAA headquarters to
be process.

NFAA Agenda Items for Club Vote

Ron West, our NFAA State Director made a
request and gave instructions for downloading for each of your clubs input on
the NFAA (National) agenda items. This was also including in the minutes of the
semi annual November MAA Board of Directors meeting.They are/were due into him by January 15th,
I hope that you clubs representative took the time to download them and go over
them with all of your clubs NFAA/MAA members in the past several month. There
were many very important items to vote on.

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MAA Semi Annual Spring Meeting

Anyone
wishing to submit agenda items for the membership to vote on please submit them
the to the MAA President, Colleen McGowan, at P.O. Box 414, Herndon, VA, 20172,
by March 13, 2007. This is
the required 60 days prior to the meeting.

MAAState Championship Applications

Attached
are the registration applications for the first two state championships we will
hold in 2007. Directions, instructions, equipment and tournament rules are
included on a separate page this year, so you will still have all the important
information left after you send in application to the MAA. The remaining
applications will be SENT out later in the year, with your next newsletter.

Please
note that once again the application does not give you a place for your DATE/TIME
selections. You must shoot twice and you can shoot back to back rounds. So you
need to request two separate times/lines to shoot.

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU PUT ON YOUR APPLICATION YOUR
PHONE NUMBER AND THE DATE/SHOOTING TIMES YOU WOULD LIKE TO COMPETE BEFORE
SENDING IT IN.OMITTING THIS INFORMATION
COULD CAUSE CONFLICTS FOR SPACE AVAILABLITY ON THE SHOOTING LINES.

COMPLETE FLYER
ATTACHED

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The MAA Annual Charity
Shoot

Our annual Charity shoot benefiting “CampSunshine”
a camp for kids with cancer will be held on April 30, 2006. Our Charity Shoot Chairperson is
Bob Sales. Please note that Bob can always us plenty of help to collect and to
set up the items at the location of the shoot. If you wish to donate time or
merchandise please call Bob at (301) 459-0763. Please also note that you can
give any donations of merchandise and/or checks to any MAA officer. Also, attached
is an official pledge sheet, it has instructions as to how the pledge sheet
works right on it. You might want to make copies in the event you fill up more
than one. Please have any one paying by check, make them payable to “American
Cancer Society”, referencing “CampSunrise” on the memo
line. Their canceled check then becomes
their receipt for tax purposes.

Dot shooters
will be shooting an official 14 target Expert Round – A Field Target is used –
Scoring all rings - 5,4,3,2,1. Shot Gun Start at 10 am. There will be 20 3D
Targets, casual registration from -10am
-12pm.Cards
in by 2pm. The new
format should put both Dot and 3D shooter finished shooting around the same
time. The Auction and drawings will start immediately after all cards are
turned in.

Attached is
a personal pledge sheet, contribution by way of this personal pledge sheets has
been way down in the last several years. Get out there and ask everyone you
know to pledge $5.00 it will add up to a lot for the Kids at CampSunshine.

*** General
Information/Reminders ***

Club Shoot Cancellations

Clubs were reminded that notification of shoot cancellations
no matter how short MUST be sent to all MAA BOARD MEMBERS AND THE WEBPAGE
ADMINISTRATOR.

Please remember that when
canceling a scheduled tournament that you must, according to the MAA By-laws,
do so 30 days in advance of the date, unless it is because of some un-foreseen
emergency.

Please contact the MAA
President, Colleen McGowan, MCGOWANCOL@AOL.COM
or 703 476 1755 AND the MAA Secretary, Kim Wise, at kimberlywise24@msn.com OR 301 293
3565. An email to all
of the clubs Presidents/Representative or club contact person.Also, please contact, Alex Dodin, the MAA
Website Manager (www.md-archery.org), at adodin@yahoo.com. He will put it up on the
website.

Unless the VP of
Tournaments, or the President, Colleen McGowan has heard about the change or
cancellation of a shoot, it will not be official. There were several times this
year that there were rumors of cancelled shoots that were incorrect and
unconfirmed.

Presidents Note: Please take the time to thank all these people
for volunteering to help support the operation of the Maryland Archery Association.

Also, we are
looking for a VP of Tournaments. Sue
Blickenstaff did a great job for many years and now we need to find someone to
file the position. Please pass the word. Any question pertaining to this position
please contact any MAA Officer. Experience in EXEL, WORD and some WORKS would
be needed. Tutoring is available.

Agenda Items

Please note:

Votes are marked as Y – YES, N - NO,
OR A – ABSTAINED,

Abstentions are added to the majority
vote.

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1.Agenda Item:page 4 – III –
Executive Committee and Duties, E.

Add the submitting of state run
tournament scores to the MAA Website Administrator to the MAA Website
administrator after each tournament to the VP of Tournaments Job description.

To return the State held 3-D
Challenge - 3D marked and unmarked back to the NFAA/MAA State
Championship shoot using current NFAA/MAA equipment rules, styles and
divisions.Keep the IBO side of the
tournament as is, using IBO equipment rules and styles for competing.

This agenda item was withdrawn by
the Bob Specht, Legal Chairman,

Explanation below:

Unfortunately the MAA Exec. Board will need to apologize for this agenda not being
pulled or Harford Bowman given the opportunity for making any changes prior to
this being sent out to the clubs for a vote.The Exec. Board tried to see if we would be
able to hold our Semi annual meeting to go over submitted agenda items via
email. I believe the general consensus at Sunday’s meeting is that we need to
have that person to person meeting in order to make sure that all aspects of
the agenda items that are submitted are already legal as far as the MAA
Constitution and By-laws permits.

After being brought up in the discussion prior
to voting on this agenda item, it was discovered that having the NFAA/MAA side
of the shoot as a State championship and the IBO side as a regular shoot,would be actually make all those
participating in side of the shoot GUESTS and would conflict with compliance
issues with the NFAA.

The MAA Exec. Board
would like to sincerely apologize to Harford Bowmen for this and if they would
like to resubmit the agenda item to please do so for May meeting.

The President note on the 3D
Challenge:

Below you
will see the actual agenda item voted on at the Nov. 2005 MAA Board of
Directors meeting.

Agenda
item:

5. Remove
the Marked and Unmarked 3D State Championships and replace them with a 1 day 3D
Challenge or Jamboree run by MAA with an IBO type class added.The targets would be set at unmarked
distances and a marked distance sheet would be available to those that want to
shoot marked 3D.The MAA/host club split would remain the same.

Submitted by Sue Blickenstaff – VP
of Tournaments

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As you can see by the bolded item the split
was to remain the same as before which is 70/30.Since this was a totally NEW concept. The
decision of the MAA providing the Awards for this shoot of which was an MAA
T-Shirt with the 3D Challenge logo on it given to each WINNER(one per person)
was a concept that came about from TA holding numerous IBO shoots. The general
consensus was that 3D Guys like their Awards to be shirts that they can wear to
show off that they won and not a trophy or plaque to collect dust.Because of this the expense was now laid
solely on the MAA, there were no GUESTS at this shoot. So the split was
reverted back to the standard 60/40 that all is used at all the other state
tournaments.

An agenda item was not submitted to make this
permanent due to the fact that an agenda item was submitted to change this
shoot once again. AAA is hosting this event in 2007. Bob Sales, AAA President
(and VP of Scheduling of who was the only other MAA Officer in attendance at
this shoot). Has already confirmed that this format worked well and had
a great response from all the participants receiving the shirts. And that it
should remain under this format when AAA holds the shoot in 2007.An agenda item will be submitted at the May
meeting to see if the membership will want to permanently change the format to
the one used this year of 2006.

4. Agenda Item:

Combine/Add
the State Animal Championship to the State Outdoor Field Championship.
This would eliminate the current State Animal Championship.Aprox.attendance of the current State Animal 35 to 40.

State
Outdoor Championship Format would be as follows:

Shoot - 28
Field Targets and then 14 NFAA Official Animal Targets directly afterwards (14
Targets being an Official NFAA round) on Saturday. Then shoot 28 Hunter Targets
on Sunday.

Free life membership if 65 years or over
and a MAA member for at least the past 10 years.

To Change
the membership fees for members that are 65 years or older to pay $15.00 and
this category of dues shall always be at least $5.00 less than the general
Adult membership (much like our tournament fee are done).Current members that are on this plan will
remain as the application states currently (the NFAA will have you listed as a
MAA life membership) this would go into effect as of January 1st 2007.

Change the State Championship pin to a
smaller size so that people can put them on their quivers, etc. without taking
up so much space.

The outcome
of the discussion was as follows:

1. The pin
needs to be bigger and not smaller (a joke from those who have not won one)

2.We would have to go thru a somewhat large
expense to make the change.

3.The reason the pins are the size now is
because someone thought the state championship pin was not big enough per the
memory of Ron West.

So the general outcome was that we should
leave the pin as is.

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A thought -We will look into some sort of a
hat pin that could be given to the state championship winners that denoted that
they were state champion of a certain year and let the membership know what the
outcome of that research is.

2.Discussion Item;

Switching the weekend dates of the AnimalState
Championship and the FITATargetState
Championship.

The general discussion was that the Seniors will most likely not worry about practicing prior to
their tournament at OA.

3.Discussion Item:

Do we want to continue to collection
of local Club shoot results?

Submitted by Colleen McGowan PresidentMAA.

Due to the fact that there was so much
discussion on all the other items, I did not feel this was worth the extra time
at the meeting. Please send you clubs response to this discussion item to
Colleen McGowan, Acting Sec. at MCGOWANCOL@AOL.COM.